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Riddles of Existence - Earl Conee, Theodore Sider

Riddles of Existence

Earl Conee, Theodore Sider

出版社

Oxford University Press, USA

出版时间

2007-08-13

ISBN

9780199215188

评分

★★★★★

标签

哲学形而上学Metaphysics入门

书籍介绍
The questions of metaphysics are the deepest and most puzzling questions there are. What is time? Am I free in my actions? What makes me the same person I was as a child? What is it for one thing to cause another? Riddles of Existence is the first book ever to make metaphysics genuinely accessible and fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating it can be to think about them. No philosophical background is required to enjoy this book: anyone who has thought about life's most profound questions will find plenty to provoke and entertain them here.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 首次让形而上学真正变得可亲近且有趣
  • 探讨时间、自由意志、人格同一性等深奥问题
  • 无需哲学背景，以生动非正式风格呈现思考
适合谁读
  • 对生命终极问题感到好奇的普通大众
  • 希望轻松入门分析哲学与形而上学的学生
  • 喜欢思考但畏惧艰深学术术语的初学者
读前提醒
  • 建议直接阅读英文原版，避免中文版翻译争议
  • 内容较浅，适合作为导览而非深度学术教材
  • 部分主题讨论较简略，需配合其他文献深入
读者共识
  • 文风幽默浅易，是友好的形而上学入门书
  • 作为导游图极佳，但深度不足，难解渴
  • 揭示了形而上学往往没有确切答案这一事实

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "Not so fast. We human beings are made of matter,tiny particles studied by the sciences. And the sciences, especially physics, discover laws of nature that specify where these particles must move. Given the forces that were acting on the particles, your body had to move the way it did, and so you had"
  • "This is the problem of free will. It is a tough problem. We all believe that we have free will, and yet scientific laws govern the matter making up our bodies, determining what we will do next."
  • "The conflict between free will and science lies in what we already know."
  • "<metaphysics addresses fundamental questions about the nature of reality."
  • "Philosophy is an intellectual quest, with rigorous rules designed to help us figure out what is really true"
  • "What makes persons stay the same over time, despite such drastic changes?"
  • "We all believe that we are free to act as we choose."
  • "But it is remarkably difficult to identify a unifying feature common to every metaphysical topic."
用户评论
much too plain and even a little bit boring
great intro, short and self-contained, see ref for literature.
my philosophy's textbook. interesting so
非常简单易懂的介绍了近现代在形而上学上面的进展。不是以灌输的形式，而是展示了不同流派的思想，让读者自行思考选择。入门首选。
无需哲学基础的入门，有点浅，但对入门挺友好的
cam reading list里的一本metaphysics的intro。作为一本面向初学者的intro已经很中肯了，但许多主题没能深入下去，特别是关于上帝、自由意志、人格同一性、共项（universal）和殊项（particular）的讨论都很浅。我最喜欢的metaphysics的intro还是a contemporary introduction（但作为intro它门槛有点高）
我的最佳哲学课体验！（虽然只看了一点点）
@2021-04-16 03:45:45
Conne的文风一下子不是很能接受，但是读了点就会觉得他谈问题的方向更全，似乎比Sider直接摆结论的做法更深入一些。 不过这本与其说是“入门”，不如真的如标题所说，是个tour guide而已。要入门还是整点论文选集配教科书，或者进一步的小综述型专著会更好。说不定接下来就开van Inwagen那本去了。 本来是想在中文版预计出来前，也就是四月底读完的，结果昨天才全看完，还是太菜。
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